A startling new research study revealed that brain deterioration, cognitive decline, and memory loss starts much earlier that you may think!

The study, done in The UK and published in the prestigious British Medical Journal, is sure to raise some eyebrows among conventional neurologists who are still singing the waiting for a never ending search for a magic bullet drug song.

Why? Because the highly accredited researchers state unequivocally that life style is the only answer-- not drugs.

As I mentioned in yesterday's Healing Minute, many people who have ever fumbled for a name to fit a face know first-hand that the loss of sharpness of memory and powers of reasoning and understanding begin not at 60 as previously thought, but from as early as 45.

My own research has shown the same and this new research totally backs me up.

Their evidence comes from a large study of more than 7,000 people aged between 45 and 70. The 5,000 men and 2,000 women agreed to undergo verbal and written tests on three occasions over a 10-year period.

Deterioration in the memory and thinking powers of the oldest people in the study was expected but it was found that the brains of even the youngest were already on the slide.

Amazingly, over the decade, there was a sharp decline in the mental reasoning of men and of women aged 45 to 49. The process sped up in the older age groups.

Men and women aged 65 to 70 had more memory loss.

It matters, say the scientists, because those whose brains appear to deteriorate fastest may be more likely to develop Alzheimer's sooner and NOW HEAR THIS-- because if there is any chance of slowing that process, those at highest risk need to be detected and treated at an early stage, before Alzheimer's or another form of dementia becomes apparent.

They are agreeing with everything I've been sharing with you.

As I hope you recall, I've been teaching you, on these pages, all the latest knowledge on the prevention and reversal of SCI or Subjective Cognitive Impairment, which is when you just feel or think your memory isn't working as well as it should or used to.

I've also highlighted that SCI can and will progress to Mild Cognitive Impairment or MCI, at an alarmingly fast pace. MCI is significant for severe short term memory loss and is progressive. It becomes the dreaded Alzheimer's in a high percentage of cases. Indeed many medical scientists believe that MCI is an early form of Alzheimer's.

And then of course there is AD itself in all its stages.

You know the importance of eating well and exercising and reducing stress.

Just yesterday I also pointed out the critical importance of taking my Gold Caps and Brain Tabs.

Being naturally inquisitive and always on the lookout for advances in products to serve you I called up the person in charge.

He wasn't familiar with my work but when I mentioned Alzheimer's prevention and so on he shared a very sad story.

I listened to him as he told me the story of his mother-in-law, Marie.

When Marie was in her 40's she was diagnosed with breast cancer and was treated correctly and thought to be "a cure."

Soon after that however, she started showing signs of memory issues.

She progressed fast from mild cognitive impairment to full blown Alzheimer's and passed away at the young age of 53.

You may recall that I've been writing about the fact that people are developing Alzheimer's at younger and younger ages.

Some, as this unfortunate woman, in their 40's.

Was the fact that she had breast cancer possibly related? I can't say for sure although many times a very serious stressful life even such as having breast cancer and the therapy involved may precipitate the development of Alzheimer's.

I've seen it before and it's well known that stress can kill brain cells and cause memory loss. Research totally backs that up.

I let the man talk and unburden himself.

Most strikingly, he was very worried about his wife because he knew that it is possible that his mother-in-law passed a genetic picture to his wife and perhaps his children.

Beyond genes, family history in and of itself increases risk by 7X.

I then explained that genes are not the only risk factor.

He asked what could be done for prevention and I told him about diet, supplements, physical and mental exercise and of course meditation.

I then advised him to order my Memory Magnet Project featuring the book Dead Brain Cells Don't Lie as well as a number of F*R*E*E gifts to help you have a younger and better brain.

Dead Brain Cells Don’t Lie is packed with incredibly practical and easily understood information that you can use right away.

It is must for anyone interested in defending themselves against age-related loss of memory.

Everyone should seek out all the life changing information in this book.

Beyond the book, I also advised him to order the Memory Loss Support Kit right away. It provides the best foundation of memory loss prevention and reversal supplements in the world. http://www.drdharma.com/memorylosskit

I sincerely hope you're paying attention to the Healing Minutes I've been writing the past week or so.

This early development of memory loss and Alzheimer's disease is very serious problem.

This edition is about the great new battery recharge often called resiliency by doctors.

The reasons I’m interested in this topic are multiple.

For one thing, I was recently discussing one of my research projects with a professor at UCLA and she shared one of her interesting scientific papers with me about this critically important topic.

Why is it so important? Because as you age, the “Stress of Life,” mounts up. Each time you suffer a set back or are exposed to a situation that has you feeling that you’re perhaps over whelmed or during times of great effort, under usual circumstances, you don’t ever return to normal or how you previously felt.

That ages you too fast if you don’t do something about it.

Another reason that this topic is so important to me is that I recently saw a middle-aged patient who lost her resiliency and, she was suffering because of it. She ran 2 business in a large metropolitan area but lives in the suburbs, which means she has to commute at least 1 ½ hrs each way.

Additionally, it was unclear if her marriage of over 25 years was going to survive.

There were business problems and children challenges and so on. Need I say more?

She was faltering at every turn; feeling tired all the time and looking fatigued as well with baggy eyes and dark circles and skin that had lost it’s color and looked grey.

She asked me which supplement I would recommend for her.

I told her I wanted to prescribe a remarkable new science-based supplement of mine.

Good health and the ability to “bounce back from stress,” I explained, begin at the cellular level, and your body gets the energy it needs to live, breathe, and thrive from microscopic "batteries" called mitochondria, located within your cells.

I mentioned these energy power plants before but to review, after age 25, these powerhouses begin to lose efficiency. That means the cells throughout your body - in your skin, heart and even your brain - don't operate as productively as they once did.

One renowned biochemist who is an authority on aging and recipient of 12 prestigious science awards, including the U.S. National Medal of Science has researched the best way to rejuvenate your mitochondria.

His efforts have led to the development of my brand new Super Rejuvenation Caps, an outstanding combination of Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) and Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALC) and Coenzyme Q 10, all highly effective anti-aging nutrients.

These compounds work synergistically to restore mitochondrial integrity and increase metabolic efficiency at the cellular level. Taken regularly, just these nutrients help support healthy aging by increasing the vitality of mitochondria, thus improving and maintaining cellular health.

But beyond that, I’ve also maximally upgraded this original formula by adding the research proven dose of Resveratrol that activates your longevity genes. This means that in addition to rejuvenating your mitochondria, which restores your energy to youthful levels; you also improve your DNA and lengthen your telomeres.

As I’m sure you know by now, lengthening your telomeres extends your healthy productive years and lengthens your life.

Some doctors believe you will never be able to reverse the aging process.

I don’t agree.

Indeed, research offers compelling evidence that the compounds in my Super Longevity Caps will help promote health deep in our cells, and healthy cells may be the key to a whole range of benefits from a better brain to better looking skin, less disease and a longer life.

All of us want the same thing: a healthier brain and a better memory. Plus you definitely want to prevent yourself from ever getting Alzheimer's.

You also want to feel sharper, have more focus, enhanced clarity, and mental energy.

I know that's what I need, too. Life is moving fast and it can be tough to stay mentally together sometimes.

But I can help.

I've actually been reviewing a bunch of articles about optimal brain health and what I've rediscovered is very encouraging to me.

While conventional scientists are still into, "We can prevent Alzheimer's with the right drug" and today they were rambling on about an amyloid removal drug, you don't have to wait for any drug to protect and serve your noodle. I'm serious.

Just this morning, in fact, I saw an online chat about ending Alzheimer's and "We have the drug coming. Won't it be marvelous?"

But, oh, by the way, this drug is still a gleam in Big Pharma's eye. I mean really let's get serious.

Here is what works right now:

1. Phosphatidyl Serine or PS by itself has been shown to be essential for all cell memberanes. This means that your brain will not stay young without a healthy brain cell membrane. Membranes are where very vital nutrients pass into the cell and give it nutrition. Without a healthy brain cell membrane you can not absorb adequate nutrients and beyond that, your brain will age much faster. With it, especially in combination with the other ingredients of my Brain Tabs experts have said you can make your brain 12 years younger. And that's a minimal estimate.

2. And then there is Ginkgo. I love the feeling of the Ginkgo that is in the Brain Tabs. Ginkgo is totally recognized by leaders in the field of integrative brain health for it's neuroprotective and anti-oxidant properties. It also increases your brain blood flow, which is so critically important for maximal memory function. Very encouraging research reveals that Ginko results in enhanced memory and concentration.

3. And of course DHA, the good fat that is mandatory for saving your brain is also included in The Brain Tabs.

But that's it. No extra and unneeded compounds that will make you feel jittery or over stimulated.

Remember. The name of the game is regeneration; not stimulation!

The Brain Tabs are specifically for enhanced brain energy, increased focus, attention and concentration as well as improved short term memory.

Now if you need to turn around a bit of memory loss then I advise you to add my all new reformulated Memory Caps.

They have Vinpocetine and Huperzine A in just the right doses. Again I don't want to over do it. I want to give you the proven correct amount of these memory enhancing natural nutrients. You may notice that other products have way too much of these compounds in them. If you were to take them there is a good chance that you could drive from Tucson to Albuquerque before you realized it.

Plus, check it out: The all newly reformulated Memory Caps contain my proprietary formula called ARB. That's correct. The Memory Caps have a secret amount of Ashwaganda to protect you from stress, Rhodiola to give you a nice energy boost and Blueberries for optimal brain protection.

You really can't go wrong. Moreover, I tell everyone these days that that they should take the Memory Caps for another vitally important reason: Toxins in food and water. The Memory Caps will help you eliminate them from your brain so they don't get stuck in there and gum up the works.

This way you don't have to wait around for some drug that may come around in like 5 or 10 years from now.

P.S. It's funny but I didn't think I'd experience any feeling from the Inner Beauty Caps. I just thought they'd work behind the scenes so to speak. But not only do I see a difference in the way I look but I actually do feel a difference, too. See what I mean. http://www.drdharma.com/beautycaps

by Dr. Dharma

Valerie's Vitamin Victory

Well here in Tucson things are rolling along after the Thanksgiving holiday. Although my office is certainly not anywhere near being a “store,” today a person came by to talk about her vitamin supplements, especially the usage of her multiple vitamins.

Valerie was very kind and took time out to chat with her and answer her questions.

The woman, who was in her golden years, told Valerie that she is on a fixed income and was tired of having to spend so much money to buy all kinds of bottles of supplements to get the benefits she needs.

Valerie explained that my high potency multiple vitamin/mineral Gold Caps has everything that anyone needs to keep herself in optimal health. The Gold Caps have all the antioxidants, minerals, and especially B vitamins we all need for physical and mental energy as well as mood elevation and all the anti-aging benefits we need including sustained weight loss.

There have been a number of recent research studies that confirm this.

Emerging studies reveal that a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement such as my Gold Caps boosts alertness and feelings of ‘general day-to-day well-being.’

These studies show that supplementation was associated with reductions in measures of depression, anxiety, and stress according to findings published in a recent medical journal.

“The present findings are particularly relevant for older people who may be at risk of experiencing subclinical depressive symptoms, said the researchers.”

The new study follows hot on the heels of a report in a different journal, which indicated that a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement like the Gold Caps boosts memory in women.

As mentioned above, the Gold Caps contain a wide spectrum of nutrients, including antioxidant vitamins, B vitamins, and minerals such as magnesium and selenium – all of which have been inversely related to heart disease by previous research.

Even more importantly, another study shows that the cells of multivitamin users may have a younger biological age than cells from non-users.

Remember telomeres?

Researchers looked at their length and showed that the aging and lifespan of your cells are made worse by stress. What this new work tells us is that telomeres are made younger and longer and stronger by multivitamins like my Gold Caps.

Be smart this holiday season and take advantage of the multiple marvellous benefits of the Gold Caps. Here’s how:

As you know, I had a very long flight and intense and incredibly interesting week in Stockholm, especially regarding the conference.

I recall that the first speaker, Nobel prize winning laureate Professor Blackburn, put us on a rocket ship into hyper-space with her lecture and the pace of the other meeting's talks didn't slow down until the conference ended on Fri afternoon.

Beyond that, I was asked to give a talk at the world famous Karolinska Institute to people interested in yoga and meditation and health in the Alfred Nobel building.

That was a real thrill. We have pictures from the whole week that we'll be posting on the web site soon. Additionally, I had 2 meetings with my foundation's research collaborators so it was a packed week.

As I look back I'm impressed with the sustained high level of mental energy I was able to maintain. Plus I could tell my recall of the important information that was imparted at the conference was really well-implanted in my memory. Moreover, I've been asked to give a presentation this week end here in Tucson to a group of high level yoga teachers receiving advanced certification where I'll be sharing all this new information.

All this to say that I couldn't have done it with out the able assistance and aid of my all time favorite The Brain Tabs.

I know that it's the perfect combination of the 3 ingredients: The PS, The Ginkgo and The Omega 3 fat, DHA.

This combination gives you so much mental energy it's just wonderful. It's great because it's stimulating without being a stimulant. No coffee jitters or anything like that.

You get a nice clear mental function along with a heightened level of the ability to create new short-term memories and cement them in so they last.

P.S. Dr. Dharma, I'm an executive in the car industry and as you know until very recently business has been tough. I want you to know that your Brain Tabs have helped me keep afloat during this tough time of my life. I'm very happy about the high levels of mental energy I've had from the Brain Tabs." Larry W, Age 52 Detroit, Mi

The FDA has not evaluated any of these statements. This e-mail is for educational purposes only. Always consult your personal doctor for medical advice. Dr. Dharma makes no claims to treat, mitigate or diagnose any disease with any of the products listed on our site, past, present or future.

by Dr. Dharma

What's The Best Marker of Health

Life Expectancy

While in Europe, I read the following article, which is very interesting.

"Life expectancy is perhaps the most important measure of health. It is readily comparable across countries and asks the most fundamental question concerning health: how long can the typical person expect to live?

Life expectancy increases due to healthcare improvements like the introduction of vaccines, the development of drug cocktails to treat AIDS or positive behavior changes like the reduction in smoking or drinking rates. During the 20th century, the average lifespan in the United States increased by more than 30 years as the rates of infectious diseases declined.

Which countries have the longest life expectancies? Japan's life expectancy is nearly 83 years with European countries like Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, and others such as Israel and Australia only a year or two behind. Japan's relative advantage is related to not only genetics but also its universal health care system, generally better diet and low levels of inequality. Unfortunately, however, they have to deal with radiation at the moment and other negative effects from their recent catastrophe.

What about the United States?

Well, that is unfortunately a very different story. The United States has a life expectancy of around 78 years, comparable to Cuba and near the bottom of the many developed countries. The few countries that lag behind the United States (Czech Republic, Poland, Mexico, Slovak Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Turkey) all have vastly lower measures of wealth. In 2000, the World Health Organization rated the United States' health system as 37th in the world, below middle income countries such as Columbia, Costa Rica, and Chile.

It is remarkable that American's pay 2-5 times more for healthcare than most developed countries while having one of the shortest life expectancies. If you think of health expenditures as an investment with longevity being the return on this investment, then we can say that the United States receives a much lower return on its investment than other wealthy countries."

What can you do to rise above the fairly dismal statistics on life and health that we in the US have as a wealthy nation? Number one is you have to invest the time, energy, and money that make your health a very high priority?

How high?

How about number one? But, unfortunately, at least in my experience very few people do make their health their number one priority. Now that may be a bit different with the Dr Dharma Doer brigade, at least I hope so, but in general many regular folk wait until they lose their health and then try and regain it again.

Please let me share one thing: That's a tough one.

So today, after returning back home from that awesome conference in Sweden, let me once again inspire you to do everything you can to stay vital and active with a clear mind for ever.

And, of course, I want to help you along the way.

So I'm once again directing you to my brand new Super Rejuvenation Caps a beautiful combination of The Energy Caps and Super Longevity Caps. They have just what you need, and nothing less to reduce stress damage to your cells and keep them young. Plus they actually activate your longevity genes and stimulate your telomeres.

Let's do all we can do to make sure we're here for many more summers to come. Indeed make everyday as if it was the summer of your life.

The FDA has not evaluated any of these statements. This e-mail is for educational purposes only. Always consult your personal doctor for medical advice. Dr. Dharma makes no claims to treat, mitigate or diagnose any disease with any of the products listed on our site, past, present or future.

by Dr. Dharma

You’re Only As Young As ???

We flew from Stockholm to London yesterday afternoon. That was Sunday. Today is Monday afternoon in the U.K. I’m now on a 747 heading back to Phoenix and from there down to Tucson.

It’s a very long flight. Over 10 hours. So this edition of The Healing Minute is coming to you after lunch at 37,000 feet.

According to what was discussed by leading professors at the conference, there are actually at least 7 answers to the above question: You’re only as young as you’re “fill in the blank.”

What do you think? Seriously, play along with me and think for a moment.

The place to start? How about here?

You’re only as young as you’re telomeres are long.

Recall that your telomeres are the little snippets of incredibly powerful and critically important pieces of DNA at the end of your chromosome. That’s really getting down there where you live or die or enjoy great health and wellness or not.

There is a very intimate relationship between the way you live your life and the actions you take or don’t take and the length of your telomeres. And visa, versa. The length of your telomeres determines how healthy you are and how long you live.

Like any relationship, it’s reciprocal: A do unto others kind of deal.

You take care of them and they’ll take care of you.

When you don’t take care of them by following poor health habits you develop inflammation and free radical damage and mitochondrial weakness and accelerated aging.

And, if on the other hand, you develop an illness, or a toxic environment is created in your healing system, regardless of the cause, then your telomeres will shorten in response to that insult.

One thing should immediately jump out at you: your telomeres are a mirror of your being and a living reflection of who you are on the deepest level. Secondly, I hope you realize that the state- of- the affairs of your telomeres are really quite adaptable. You can change them.

What is the number one telomere shortener?

That’s very easy to answer. It’s stress.

Why? The stress you are subjected to creates a chemical response in your body that has a direct effect on your telomeres.

Beyond that, these chemicals and other deleterious insults to which you’re subjected be it environmental toxins or whatever cause a second type of stress known as oxidative stress, which happens on the deepest cellular level all the way inside your all-important mitochondria, the energy and metabolism part of your cell. That’s one reason why accelerated aging is manifested as obesity and fatigue and wrinkles and so on down the line.

When your telomeres become short and your mitochondria are damaged as one professor shared, your body is depleted of Vit C and Vit E and other vitamins as well.

That’s why a high potency multiple like my Gold Caps are so beneficial: they replenish those vitamins as well as supply many other important nutrients to your cells that keep your telomeres humming on all cylinders.

Don’t forget the B’s in the Gold Caps also play a very important role in keeping your nervous system sharp. And the minerals do, too.

P.S. Based on this new information I’m advising everyone to take 6 Gold Caps a day for a full complement of C, E as well as A and B’s. And remember you save when you order them on the frequency discount we call continuity.http://www.drdharma.com/continuity

The FDA has not evaluated any of these statements. This e-mail is for educational purposes only. Always consult your personal doctor for medical advice. Dr. Dharma makes no claims to treat, mitigate or diagnose any disease with any of the products listed on our site, past, present or future.

by Dr. Dharma

Aging In Reverse

Wednesday here in Sweden there was light coming in our hotel window at 3:30 A.M.

Funny because the sun only had just gone down at around 10:30 P.M.

I was able to go back to sleep for a little while but got up early anyway so I could do my morning practice of Yoga and Meditation and then go down to the Hotel's gym for a short work out before heading over to the best conference I have ever attended.

Everything was pretty calm like it usually is here in Europe. That is until the first speaker was introduced and rose to the dias.

It was Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, the Nobel prize winner from 2009. She was awarded the Nobel prize for her astounding discoveries and descriptions of what happens to your telomeres as you age or hopefully as you take positive healthy actions and are thus able to age in reverse.

Dr. Blackburn is one of those people who look like a normal woman in perhaps her mid-fifties until she is unleashed. Then its like WOW.

I had to figuratively strap myself in my seat and put on my seatbelt and prepare myself for a rocket ship ride into hyperspace.

Va-Voom and we were off.

I have never experienced a speaker like her and I have seen them all over the years from Deepak Chopra to Andrew Weil and many pure academic speakers as well including many other Full Professors like her in many fields.

Academic speakers are interesting because they have no concern about the commerciality of pleasing the audience so to speak.

That's not to say that they don't want to; it's just not their first priority. Their first priority is to give the professionals to whom they're speaking as much beautiful data as possible and have it make good logical sense.

That's why In medicine we call what they share PEARLS.

So that's how it started and over the next 3 days I felt privileged to be in this exclusive crowd of physicians and scientists at the conference organized in part by the Nobel committee and held at the Swedish Society of Medicine Building, which goes back to 1906. As I looked around inside the building I noticed gold leaf ornamentation and pictures of their presidents all the way back to the early 1800's.

When I say exclusive I mean it because the attendees were limited. In fact I'd say there were only about 70 hand-picked people admitted to the conference.

And I was only one of a few Americans. The others were from The American NIA/NIH and Dr. Blackburn and Drs. Elissa Epel and Dr. Owen Wolkowitz n from The University of California-San Francisco. The other speakers were from major Universities in the U.K. and Europe because they are ahead of the US in this area of medical research.

As I think you know, I was there to present a paper on my advanced research, especially in the field of meditation and memory and longevity.

I can't possible share everything that I learned in one Healing Minute, so I'll be writing about the conference in a series of mail outs over the next week or so.

My plan is then to link what was presented at the conference to something that I've created to serve your mind, body and spirit.

Some, like what I'll be offering today, will be new.

Others will be products that I've created for you before to enhance your health and brain longevity for as I've mentioned before, we have been way ahead of the curve here at Drdharma.com.

That's just the way my life has been organized. I was blessed to have a certain professional existence that allowed my time to stay on top of all the most recent and important developments in this field. And what's most important, being independent, I've not developed tunnel vision. Because I don't have to publish or perish, which is the hallmark of academic medicine, I've been able to follow where my intuition and experience and interests have led me.

Fortunately, I've been pretty much right on target. And because I don't work in the field of drug development, I've been able to stay away from that mess.

But one area where I have been able to excel is in the formulation of highly effective state-of-the-art nutrients.

Now you know that we've had the awesome Energy Caps, that target your critically important inside- the- cell furnace machinery known as the mitochondria. That's where energy is produced and, as I learned at the conference, when your mitochondria age not only do you generate more aging free radicals that lead to inflammation but, in addition, through a messenger signaling system your telomeres become aged and unhealthy and short as well.

As the telomeres age they expose your precious DNA to toxins and predisposes you to mutations that can lead to cancer and other diseases of aging.

I think you may be starting to see how important all this work is if you want to not only live long but enjoy a high quality life.

So that's why the Co Q 10 and Alpha Lipoic Acid and the Acetyl-L-Carnitine in the Energy Caps are life-giving and health promoting. They actually work inside your mitochondra and rejuvenate them.

And please recall that I've also created the Super Longevity Caps, which contain the longevity gene stimulator called Resveratrol.

This was actually discussed in great detail at the conference as a way to lengthen your telomeres and make your cells younger by activating those special genes called Sirtuin-1.

Now here's where we are right now and it's an example of how challenge can become a great opportunity.

My original manufacturer decided to make it hard for a small boutique online store like us here at DrDharma.com to continue. They wanted to put us under such enormous financial pressure that it would be impossible.

So I used my Yogic abilities and put out an intention and found a better source for these 2 important supplements.

And to top it off we were able to combine them both together so you can have both at a good and fair price. Less pills to take, too.

The dose of the new Super Rejuvenation Caps will be 2 capsules per day.

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